pac man that games is my favorite you sit there and eat the power pellets then eat the ghost. After each round you got a lil story line with it ms pac man than baby pacman. i still love to play that game to this very day

My favorite game would have to be Legend Of Zelda: The Link To The Past. I love it so because it was the first game to pull me from a casual gamer, into an avid gamer. No other linear game have I played through so many times. The slight RPG qualitys hooked me into finding upgrades, the boss fights (though the number of hits was usually a predicable multiple of three) were great. Even the dual worlds concept made me giggle like the little girl I aren't. Oh Zelda, I love thee so.

THERE YOU GO EVERYONE.... now you know my weakness when I conquer the world!

Archon for the NES
It's a sort of chess/beat-em-up hybrid with fantasy style characters. When you try to take an enemy piece you must fight them in an arena. Two player matches got very intense. Multifaceted, memorable gameplay and distinctive character designs make this one my favorite.

NetHack (nethack.org) is my favorite game. The graphics are bare-bone to say the least, but the gameplay itself is unmatched. No matter what else I play, I always come crawling back to this simple yet addictive game. The learning curve is larger than most games nowadays (with over 70 commands from the keyboard), and beating the game isn't really the point of playing it (and is nearly impossible).

It's hard to decribe, but when you remove the fancy user interface and flashy graphics of the average game, it really brings you closer to the game. Without the usual distractions of sound and graphics, it lets your imagination take control of the imagery.

The way the game is randomly generated allows for completely unique circumstances. You can do things in this game that no other game has yet to offer. Like eating your own kitten instead of starving to death (while halucinating), polymorphing a shop keeper into Lychen and eating him. Taming hordes of Unicorns and Elves and Dwarves into being your loyal slaves. Sacrificing corpses on an alter to maybe recieve a gift of a weapon that scares creatures, making them flee. Among other things. Check it out.

Bruce lee for the commodore 64!. I LOVED the multiplayer function where you can play as the bad Yamo (chineese reptile sumo thingie) it was such a cool old game;). I actually found a remake of it some weeks ago that I played to death trying to beat my score:) cool game:).

Command and Conquer (almost all of them:P but especially the first) That was the game that pulled me from carpenter to full time gamer. haha. its such a genius concept. I reaaallly loved how the buildings unfolded, its just one of those details;).

I find it hard to really chose a number one favorite out of all the games I play, but Super Mario RPG for the SNES is definitely up there on my favorites list, it turned the world of Mario into a stunning 3D enviroment full of funny and quirky characters and weird bosses(the axem rangers[I think that's what they were called] and the wedding cake to name a few)

Heroes of Might & Magic series.
Ive spent hours playing each of these games. When I was in high school, me and a couple other mates use to bunk school and play HoMM3 all day.
I loved building up a huge army them taking out all the other players in one big swoop.
I tried to get into the beta for HoMM5, but failed :(

Oh, wow. So many awsome games. Link to the Past, Harvest Moon, Warlords, Rampart, Comand and Conquer, so many to choose from. I think my favorite all time game that I can never play enough is Earthbound for the SNES. This was my first RPG and it got me hooked. The witty dialog, characters, items, and story all made me love it. I rented this game countless times before my mother finally broke down and bought it for me. We will never forget you Buzz Buzz!

Ooops, forgot about all the Mega Man games, give it up for Mega Man 3!

My favorite game has to be Earthbound for the Snes. The reason its my favorite is hard to put in words for me, it would have to be the music, the story, being that i was 8 or so, the mixture of the battle scenes and music and just about everything about the game just hooked me to the game and i loved it ever since still to this day the same things just make me not be able to put down the controller.

At the time it was probably the only game i could actually beat. also it was the first game i actually beat, before my brother, if i remember correctly, it was probably the first game i actually beat too. great memories playing that game.

There are so many:D well lets see Bubble boble ahh there was a cool game with LOTS and LOTS of lvls:D very cool old game;). Mastering the "make bubble and then jump on to it" was hard but Nifty:). Great game:)

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Well I played SPACE ACE to death:D Its such a cool game:D very different game anyway;) and Kimmy has an attractive force of some sort for sure;) you might like that blond from Dragons lair better, but I have always been a sucker for red hair;) ANYWAY! great game:D, I love the non stop "stress" to push the right buttons the right time and all. makes it very hard... the first time anyway:P. second time you just KNOW the moves;) I also like the fact that its like playing a cartoon. its a very different experience:).

Wolfenstein... I played that game so much that I Memorized the 10 first levels in my backbone:P. I even made models of paper of the levels and where all the enemies were;). when i see it today im like "What?! it looked so MUCH nicer in my brain:P" haha but still a great game at the time;).

My favourite game would have to be Final Fantasy VII. It's only because it was the first time i've ever played a game of that type, and to me it was an unforgettable experience.

Favorite game? That's a hard one. Probably Uniracers. It's this unicycle racing game for the SNES that was an absolute blast. A simple side scrolling 2D speed fest with tons of tricks involved (made by the company that would become Rockstar).

Deathtrack for the pc

A game released around 1990 for the pc.
It's a race game which was actually the first game to bring the full auto idea to a computer.

U had to buy a car with unique charactaristics like speed armor etc. Further more u had to buy weapons to put on your car. Then u had to race... u could try to win the game just by racing good, but u really needed to use your weapons to take down other racers.

If the race is done, u needed your winnings to repair your car and weapons, and if u got anything left, buy some upgrades...

Real fun game, and i hope full auto will bring back some of the memories :)

With kind regards
Marco

My favourite game would be a rather unknown one, it's name is Sacrifice. It's a game for the pc and came out in the year 2000. It got rave reviews and everybody loved it, saying how awesome the gameplay and the graphics were, there was only one small problem. Nobody actually bought the game. Most pc gamers I talked to say that they heard of the game, but never really took notice, which is weird, considering how beautiful the whole thing is (Even by today's standards) and how magnificient it plays.

Sacrifice is an action/rts/rpg mix. Now don't turn away right now, I also know that most games that try to mash genres together are usually a steaming pile of something inappropriate, but Sacrifice is different. It does the thing so well that I wish more games would do the same.

The basic premise of the game is that you play as a wizard, as a champion of gods. Depending on the god(s) you choose to serve, you get different spells and the ability to summon different creatures. The amount of creatures you can summon is dependant on the number of souls in your soul pool. When creatures die, they leave souls, which you can then collect to resummon them. It's also possible to steal the soul of your opponent's creatures, but those have to go through a conversion process which can easily stopped by a simple attack spell, so it's not as easy as it sounds. Some of the stronger spells include eathquakes, volcanos (The game has a deformable landscape, so the thing literally rises out of the ground and stays there), tornadoes and cows falling from the sky. The game also has a great sense of humor and the art in it has a loveable style which is incompareable to the usual fantasy drawings in cliché games.

All in all I would recommend Sacrifice to anyone who likes RTS games and is bored by playing the same game over and over again as is the case with today's games.

One of my Fav games is Star wars: republic commando

Action Packed to the very LIMIT. and you Never ended up stuck in the game looking for some item or anyhing.

It had a natural "flow" to it. and because of that you never were confronted with the fact that it was just a game:P

and the squad your with seem so real, probaly because of the random chatting/teasing and such:D when I finished the game I WANTED MORE!! witch is the only downside but else then that it ROOOCKKS

*recomends it to everybody*

Hmmmmm... I have many favorite games from WOW to HL2. I would have to say that the game that I continually play almost every year is BOTH the System Shock games. I have part 2 and I still have part 1 from WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY back. The atmosphere and the action was in poerfect tandem together in those games. It is a shame that Looking Glass Studios is not around, but at least we still have those responsible working on games.

My favourite game is Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. Alpha Centauri is Civilization set on an alien planet. It mixes sci-fi, philosophy, a forbidding atmosphere, and turn based gaming into a unified, highly addictive strategy game.

Civilization III was nowhere near as good as Alpha Centauri. And as for Civilization IV - well, I can easily wait until it hits the bargain bin when I still have SMAC to play.

One of my favorites is Toejam & Earl for the 16-bit Sega Geniuses. Had good music, random levels, great enemies, even better "weapons" and the best Co-op to date.

My Favorite game is:
Disgaea: Hour of Darkness

Disgaea is one addictive game with two endings
one long game that sucks you in and wont let you go without you completing it. The cute little monsters and the magic graphics this is one game which makes swords and zombies look cute. The range of swords and magic spells and so on are great with alot to use and do i.e Side missions, unlocks, 2 endings. Disgaea is one game i would recommed to everyone who fancys a go on a long RPG or first time RPG gamer.

Soldiers: Heroes of WW2 is probably my all time favorite. I enjoyed it more than HL, C&C, Diablo2 and all the other great games!

The hard needed innovation in both technolagy and gamepley within this awesome RTS makes it my favorite.

Awesome graphics (still better than AoE3, even though it's older), even cooler physics (what's more fun than driving your tank straight through a house full of germans?!), awesome, origenal gameplay, with lots of new features never seen in an RTS before, and the high dificulty make this a classic.

If you consider, that this was Best Way's first title, you can only immagine what more they can do in the future!

I can't wait for the sequel, Faces of War (Origenal title is owned my codemasters), schedualed for march '06. It prommises even better gameplay, bigger battles, and FLAMETHROWERS :D

Though it was commercially not so much of a succes, it was an awesome game!

My favorite game is whatever Steve's favorite game is.

:D

Mrs. Pac Man... Why it was not my first game or the game that got me hooked.... it is simple one of the best games ever made...

I still play Mrs. Pac Man and she gets a lot of game time... The reason she has lasted this long is simply the game is FUN FUN FUN...

My favorite game is (no surprise) Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. I don't know whether it's because I'm not allowed to have it in my 15 year old state, or whether it's the open endedness of the game.

I've only played it a few times, but the few that I did, it was Utopia. Stealing cars, flying helicopters, shooting anything and everything you want, running from police, trying to get the maximum wanted level... It's all very good. I love the game to death and I don't own it. I've never tried a mission, but I've played it for hours at friends' houses. I guess that's what makes this game so great, hours of play without ever feeling the need to even touch the main story.

Worms: Armagedon also comes to mind. The gameplay was so simple that anyone could pick it up, but deep enough that practice would make perfect. I have since purchased it, but whenever I would go to one of my friend's house and we would play video games the whole time. We would sit there, get bored of playing Sonic 3 and every other game he had. But when that happened, Worms: Armaggedon was played for hours afterwards. We would get "Sonic-ed out," but we could never get "Worms-ed out."

It was such an imaginative and addicting game, one of the few that you don't want to see translated into 3D. The 3D games take away some of the depth (pun intended) of the gameplay, along with the simplistic charm. Worms: Armaggedon is definitely one of my all-time favorite games.

Splinter Cell: This was the game that introduced me to the stealth
side of games. Before this game, it was just regular 1st and 3rd person shooters for me to play where everything felt the same and you could somehow be able to take on an army of bad guys and live. In Splinter Cell everything is more realistic and you must use your smarts to survive. No run and gun here, doing that gets you shot, so you must take it slow. This is my favorite game and if you haven't played it yet, give it a shoot, you might like it.

Wow, there are so many good ones!

I'm going to Say Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
Hands down. That game was the first game that really took me into the N64. It was simply amazing. This was the first Zelda game I EVER played, and one of the first adventure/action games that stood out on the N64 for me. From the awesome fighting sequences, to the huge world to explore, this game was as close to being perfect as humanly possible.

I recently went back and played through the entire game again. I'm still impressed. The final battle, though a bit easy, was superb in atmosphere. My favorite LOZ:OT moment so far; I was fighting Gannon, lighting cracks, and Gannon slices at me with his blades. I backflip over the blades, nearly getting sliced, and BAM slice to the head, Gannon dies.
Oh yeah, this game will always be awesome...

This has been a lot of fun, seeing everyone's favourite games and it was a hard decision but I think I'm going to say the Secret of Monkey Island. I'm picking this game based off of nostalgia, replay, and the fact that I would make silly voices and read out all the dialogue as I played.

My very first nintendo game was Maniac Mansion and so I had a connection with Scumm games from the start. When we came back to America and got our MacTV, the first game CD we had was a Lucasarts bundlepack with Loom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Pipe Dreams, and the Secret of Monkey Island. I have played and beaten (I think) every Monkey Island game since and have enjoyed most of the other SCUMM games Lucasarts has plopped out.

So there you have it. Apologies to Civ, Metal Gear Solid, Tetris, Final Fantasy Adventure, Under the Root, and Christalis but Secret of Monkey Island it is.
-leeman

I would have to say my favourite game of all time is The Sims series. Since it first came out i've been playing continuosly and buying every expansion pack within the week they came out. I am also currently enjoying The Sims 2 with its two expansion packs, with soon to be 2 1/2 because of the holiday pack.

I loved the open endness of the game, you could be successful and get a great job, or just make a family and burn them all! (Not that I ever did that ;P).

I am still looking forward to the expansion packs that maxis will offer in the very near future!

Of all time I'd have to say Ms. Pac-Man. Only because I can still play it and enjoy it to this day. But a lot of arcade type games are like that.

Recently I just finished Half Life 2 on the xBox and that game was simply amazing. Even though it borrows from a lot of sci-fi that came before, it all came together nicely as a whole environment.

Capitalism plus.

Capitalism plus is a business simulation game where you can manufacture and sell dozens of different products, from cars to computers to stuffed animals.

What makes the game so good are two seperate things. First, you can use just about any strategy you want. If you want to just sell things at retail, you can do that. If you don't want to have any retail stores at all, you can just manufacture. If all you want to do is be a farmer, you can do that as well. You can go for high end products, spend all your money on advertising, gain monopolies through research, attempt to drive competitors out of business or just play the stock market.

The second reason that I like it so much is because its so realistic. I first played it while I was in high school, and after taking economics in college I see so much of the supply and demand, monopoly profits, Cournot equilibriums etc. One of the coolest things I've ever seen is that when I had a monopoly in capitalism, I would act in textbook fashion in regards to withholding supply, without ever consiously doing so.

A truly superb game, even though nobody has ever heard of it.

My favourite game of all time is Age of Empires. That game realy rules!!! Quite nice graphics, great gameplay, and lots of replay value!
The sequels are good too, but they'll never surpass the original AOE.

That was my comment on my favourite game. Quite mainstream tho...;)

The Monkey Island Series, well 1-3, these games are so classic. Lucasarts were the kings of the advenutre genre in the 90's and these games stand out in my mind as the strongest of that time. I would have chosen Grim Fandango but monkey island was point-n-click. These games are a blast, sharp writing, good plot, and one or two tough puzzles in each game.

Hm, well I would have to say my favorite game would have to be... Grim Fandango. It has a great storyline, very humorous and just great all around characters.

It's a very 'interesting' game.

Coming up for a close second would have to be either Harvest Moon: BTN, or Indigo Prophecy, I can't decide which would win second because they both are good games.

- Varsity

Quake 1 with the 3wave Capture the Flag mod.

I played DooM and enjoyed it, but it didn't make me a slave to it like Quake's multiplayer did! Any game that steals 4 years of my life deserves high regard. The weapons had some tremendous OOMPH!, the action was fast and rarely let up, developing winning team dynamics in preparation for clan matches was awesome, and no grappling hook has ever replicated the sheer perfection of the one used in the Threewave CTF mod for the original Quake.

The only FPS to ever come close to matching Quake's intensity since has been Painkiller...but it just isn't the same. The stake gun is sweet though ;)

Final Fantasy X was magical. Mostly I loved the game because of the presentation. The graphics, music, and plot meshed together famously. Probably my favourite game because it's one of three that give me that nostalgic feeling which is so rare nowadays.

Final Fantasy 7 would have to be another favourite of mine, its the game that introduced me to RPGs. I now have a copy of all the FF games up to FF9.

Tropico

Tropico is a strategy game were you take control of an obscure caribean island during Cold War. You are a dictator and you can choose between USA and Russia as an allie. You can either be a communist and build home for the people and give them the same salary or you can be a capitalist , trying to make money over the poor and to have industries.

I usually play as a capitalist, by the way, the game Capitalism II was great. Have you ever played the sequel Thaddeus McMonster?

This is a very hard call. There are a lot of "greats" out there, but I would say the game that is my favorite nowadays is Soul Calibur II. Soul Calibur (and the Tekkens) were what brought the fighting game genre, kicking and screaming, into the 3d modern world. How many bloody "Capcom Verses" or SNK games are out there that use the same sprites as ten years ago?

Fast paced, innovative, yet simple to learn game play was what got me hooked on this game, but the depth of learning all the characters and the system "under the hood" was what made me kept playing this game for a long time. Soul Calibur 2 is a definate modern classic of fighting game.

My favorite game of the moment is Geometry Wars on the Xbox 360 live arcade. I have sentimental favorites, of course, but it depresses me to be stuck in the past, talking about 20-year-old games as if 20 years of creativity hasn't managed to create anything better. It's not true.

Tough Question, so many favorite games. Im going to have to pick one I have fond memories of, even if its not the best game or most recent favorite

River City Ransom - for the NES.

I remember playing it, and the character graphics were nothing I had seen before. Bats, chains, garbage cans, tires for weapons? Awesome! And then the characters reacted with text phrases when you hit them? Hilarious! It was my first game exposure to leveling up games, I remember going into the restaurants and buying food to gain attributes - it was so cool!.

Recently i purchased River City Ransom for the GBA, and River City Rumble the DVD which is a must own movie for any fan of the game.

For me I would say The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the N64. I was a freshman in highschool when I played it and it absolutely blew my mind. There are several pivotal points in the story line that actually creeped me out in real life and really affected me on an emotional level. No game has ever made an impact on me more than that one.

My favorite game is the Roller Tycoon Series because i love riding coasters and playing a game where you make them is increadibly fun. I always wanted to own and run my own theme park and this game just quenched my dream. Its just cool designing and making a superflous park. I think atari did a great job on that series. I still play the series today.

Galaga is a classic and is my favorite. A lot of you are probably laughing at me, but it brings back lots of nostaglia and has great replay value.

While nice little classics for the SNES (like Final Fantasy VI, Robotrek, Illusion of Gaia, Actraiser, etc.) give me such fond memories, my favorite lies instead within the Playstation 2's expansive release list.

I'd have to go with Dark Cloud 2 by Level-5. Massive improvement over the first, but apparently not very well received.
Instead of your character gaining levels and such, you fight monsters and get experience for your weapons. You develop your weapons through several different, pretty long trees, using a nifty synthesis system.
There's also a sub-weapon for each character that you can develop (one character gets a sword + magic shooting bracelets, and one gets wrenches/club-type weapons + guns. GUNS.)
There's a couple of minigames too (a must in fairly long games like this one, otherwise I get -really- frigging bored): spheda, a golf minigame takes place after you kill all the monsters on a map. Some maps are huge and oddly shapen with hazards and pits everywhere (lava, water, boundaries, etc.), making the games extremely challenging. You will often have to carefully come up with some very tricky shots to succeed.
Also, you can build up your golf club like you would a weapon.

There is a fishing system too. The more you fish, the more "fishing points" you get, and the more you upgrade your fishing pole.
Even the -fish- are upgradeable, though not in the same way. When you build a portable aquarium, you can keep some of the fish you caught as pets. Feeding them with different types of bait-type items you've collected gives them different stats, helpful for a fish racing minigame called "Finny Frenzy."
There's also a fishing contest in which you are supposed to go out and get the biggest one you can. Takes time, patience, and skill.

The aquarium I mentioned, as well as many other items, are part of the game's invention system. With your camera, you can go out into town and take pictures of every object you can. You go into the invention screen and combine three "ideas" and see if you get something good out of it.
Not as many weird inventions as I would have liked, but it's still just fun to go out and collect all the ideas.

There are all these things and many more.

I just really enjoy games where it's a little different, but not so far out there that it's a waste of space even in the bargain bin.
It's fun being able to upgrade so many things in so many different paths. If you do it right, you will have such an extremely powerful weapon that nothing stands against you, not to say the game is easy or even shortened by this fact. If you're the kind of guy who doesn't rip through games as fast as possible, the kind of guy who just likes to sit back and simply enjoy whatever you're doing... I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

I recommend you all go out there and find this one. It's so sad to refer to it when nobody understands what I'm talking about.
Level-5 is very competent and I hope you keep your eye on their upcoming title, Rogue Galaxy. More of the same, but different enough that you will get another unique and fun experience.

Thanks for reading.

Total Annihilation. The best RTS game I have ever played. A 3d environment, realistic physics (plasma bombs launched from kilometers away do not alway hit), the insane amount of units, and the ability to make you feel like a real Commander during battle. It is my favorite game of all time, even though the Civ series comes in a very close second. I just can't wait until Supreme Commander...

Fallout/Fallout 2.

They were great RPG's, and I like the fact that they weren't very linear at all. They were fun to play, and I've spent hundereds of hours in them, and I still play them today. If you haven't played them, I think you should try them, they are great games.

Hmm... Can you post a game thats already been posted?

Lets see... Nethack? Nope, already taken... SMAC? Nope, taken too...

Well, It seems that I will have to go with the classic: Master of Orion 2.

Oh, moo, how do I love thee? let me count the ways... ^-^
Master of Orion was, basically, the first strategy game I ever laid my little hands on. There I was, 10 years old, sending forth vast armadas of hopelessly outclassed ships to stem the tide of my uncle's state-of-the-art armada breaking through my line. When it became apparent that I would loose a system, I would implement a 'slash and burn' strategy, basically making the colony useless.

But, with time, I learned, and soon turned the tables against his seemingly unstoppable strategies. The psilon, I learned, could pown their way through his defences with tech beyond his ability to even research. I felt proud at that moment, and the game stuck with me.

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Another all-time classic, which I always seem to come back to, is Civilization 2. At many points, I was hopelessly addicted to this game, and my grades and social life took a nose-dive. I believe the term "Just one more turn..." applied to me. So many strategies, a sence of epic clashes between civilizations spanning entire continents. Strategies to defeat the awkward ai where abundant, such as building a road from enemy territory to a fort situated on the side of a mountain and letting the poor B4574RD5 ride to their doom. I was actually suprised this game hadn't been picked yet... I am seriously disappointed in each and every single one of you. Oh, and so many scenarios to be found on the internet; even startrek and starwars mods to be found! If stuck on a desert island, that somehow had electricity and a pc, I would definately bring this, nethack (to edge me closer to insanity as my samurai is killed right after obtaining the amulet of yendor), and Master of Orion.

Das ist alle. Dank für Ihre Zeit. ^-^

One of my favorite games is Codename eagle:P It might be out dated today, But it was the first "Battlefield" they made;) and It absolutly rocked;). Ive had hundreds og Genius moments in that game;). To bad not many knew about it.

This question is impossible for me. I could think about it for an hour and still not decide on a favorite. I guess I'll say Link to the Past. It's my favorite Zelda, and Zelda is my favorite series, so there ya go.

Hehe, funny you should mention Star Control 2 in the post. I played Star Control 1 with my brother when I was 6, every time I could coax him into getting up in the morning we would play all sorts of games (he's 11 years older than me, how he put up with me I don't know... Although he did later take up ninjitsu and showed me all sorts of painful tricks...) but despite his massive list of games Star Control is the one I remember. Sadly his Amiga crashed and the game was lost forever and I never even knew what it was called, so when I found Ur-Quan Masters a year or so I was bouncing with nostalgic joy, damn that game rocks, speaking of which, I should play it now... *runs off*

Of course there are other games that I love, but I don't think there will ever be a game that has the power to etch itself that deeply into my memory, well, at least not until Spore comes out.

my fav game was Crime Fighter. it lets you play as the crook the big bad guy instead of the cops. The graphics were.....simple but i had a darn engrossing time hiring my minions and eqipping them with machine guns to rob old grandmas :) Its a freeware btw. Also another game that i had came to love was theme hospital, cause i like the "treatement" for Bloatly head.....which is to poke a needle to your head haha.......had plently of good memories with these two great yet classic underestimated undermined games

Faxanadu for the NES.

While whether or not I was an innately gifted child is up for discussion, one thing is definately clear: Faxanadu taught me to read.

My brother, being seven years older than myself, rented Faxandu one summer's afternoon. He didn't seem to care much for it, but I absolutely loved the game (looking back on it now, it was really the first superbly done action-rpg. This is what Zelda 2 SHOULD have been. It had all the RPG elements, but was action based and side scrolling. Most importantly, there were NO BOTTOMLESS pits, something that most games never seemed to get).

Anyway, to my surprise and joy, I received the game for my birthday that year. Being RPG-ish, the game had a lot of text. And I wanted to know what it said. My mother was continuously being interrupted while I asked her what this said or what that word was. Before I knew it, I could read every line of the game.

I then proceeded to Kindergarten wherein I astounded everyone with my astonishing ability to read.

Faxandu is a perfect example of how video games can be great educational tools. Of course, it never would have happened if the game wasn't fun. In short, educational games shouldn't be focused on the learning, but rather should be a side-effect of enjoying the game.

My favorite game would have to be the Elder Scrolls series. They were truely groundbreak and no game will ever be able to compare to the magic of the original.

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory!!! I love sneaking around in the dark and walking around without the NPCs even knowing I'm there. Sometimes I sneak up behind them and whistle, just to see them freak out, lol. other times i place a wall mine on a wall near their patrol route, sneak up behind them, whistle, wait till they're near the mine, shoot at their feet and watch one of them run right past the mine! Then BOOM! Him and his buddy blow up in an explosion of flames and rag doll physics! Hilarious.

Wow, great question. So many... The one that has sucked the largest portion of my life down the drain is Furcadia, although that's less of a game and more of a chatroom. Followed by that, various MUDs including Daedal Macabre (http://www.daedalmacabre.org/) and Accursed Lands (http://www.accursed-lands.com/) were definately played more than was healthy. ;)

Absolute favorite of game-games, though, would have to be the original Unreal. I loved the monsters it had (very animated, and very original), and I missed that in Unreal Tournament. The cheats and advanced console were also neat; you could freeze time, summon -any- object or monster, tweak things in strange ways, and in general mess around with lots of stuff. Lots of great community maps and mods in its time, as well. It lacks a little of the polish you see today, but it's still a great game.

My favorite game would have to be Starcraft Brood War for the PC, its my favorite RTS since warcraft 2. Its basicly the only game that I ALWAYS come back to, i have lots of games and i eventually get bored and hardly play them but starcraft is always in my PC and all my friends that live around me have it so we play it all the time. BEST RTS EVER!

My favorite game has to be Ninja Gaiden on Xbox...or should I say Ninja Gaiden Black, since it is everything the original was with great ad-ons. The thing that makes me love it so much is the combat. It is difficult, which makes it seem like not everybody can beat the game. There is a great sense of accomplishment when the game is finished. I love it for its challenge.

My favorite game of all time is Ocarina of Time. However, I think that twilight princess might be my favorite since Nintendo is making all this hype about it. I like OoT because it is long and fun to play. Also, it'll be awsome if they had some sort of MMORPG for that game.. maybe I'm just crazy. =P

Fallout 2 for the win!

You can do almost anything you want, any way you want and the era and such was awesomely done.

My favorite game of all time is Super Smash Brothers Melee. I have had so much fun playing this with my friends, and beating the stupid Dr. Mario with Sheik!

Sheik is awesome!

MY favorite game of all time would probably have to be Chrono Trigger for the SNES. It was the first video game RPG I ever played, and I was instantly in love with the genre after playing for just a short time.

The characters were fantastic, memorable, and (perhaps most important of all) easy to sympathize with. How many games do you get to play a talking frog who's tough with a sword? Not to mention how much fun it is having a robot punch a dinosaur!

I also loved how the game mechanic of time travel actually worked well. It was fun to see what kind of changes there would be in different time periods, depending on your actions in past periods.

And of course, all the different ending were great too. It was very satisfying to find them all. The special "talk to the designers" ending was particularly neat.

This is one of the games that first turned me on to gaming, and I still love it to this day. Every now and then I'll still bust out the old SNES and give this one a run through.

The original Halflife.

I've probably spent the most time playing HL1 and all its mods. I enjoyed every minute of it.

I've gotta go with the rerelease of Ogre Battle on PS1 (originally was on SNES) A really great strategy RPG. Gotta support a game where you can have a squad of skeletons led by Samurai. Just look out for clerics.

I would have to say between Super International Cricket and Super Mario Kart both for Super Nintendo they change every so often between each other. The origional Mario Kart was great I spent hours just playing the mushroom cup again and again working out the racing line of the CPU so i can place bananas and green shells will never forget that game. Super internation cricket is probably the best cricket game ever made it was simple and tons of fun you could spend all day playing. Me and my Brother even came up with the 1st names for the entire Australian team (they didn't have the license to use the real names so they just made up players)

My favorite game of all time is Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. Some people call it's story to complex, even confusing. I call it a master piece. I'm a lover of good suspense books and this story fullfills my needs grandly. Oh, and did i mention the game play is absolutly blew me away. It was so "next - gen" at the time i first picked it up.. I <3 Metal Gear Solid!
-Brandt

Wow, lots of competition. I'm not going to win obviously, but, you cant win unless you are in... or... well I forget that saying.

I think I would have to say Tecmo Super Bowl. I love football (although it isnt my native sport) and this game is one of the best of that. It was so amazing for the time and I still play it today. If I'm bored, I need to wind down, I just go and play a few seasons of TSB. Fantastic.

Anyways, I'm going to add a second choice as I'm bored - the Blast Billiards series. I know what your thinking - either a) what is Blast Billiards, or b) WTF? Well yes, Blast Billiards is a pool game. It is a free game that you can find on such sites as mousebreaker.com, and I'm playing it as I write this. Well, not exactly now, as I'm writing, but I just paused it to write this. It is a very addictive game.

Whats that Max? You want to add a third game - alright then, enough of speaking to myself in the third person - its the Madden series. Another football game, and this is almost as good as TSB. Obviously better graphics and sound etc, but the gameplay still isnt as good. I love Madden, but god EA fix the glitches! The run-pass thing and the stat problems come to mind.

So, hopefully Steve reads this on the air (or at all), and if I win - that's just a bonus :-).

From

Max

This is a great list guys, keep it up.

One note is that you can repeat games no problem. If ten people select Halflife as their favorite game of all time, so be it! And yes, I am reading every single comment. Really surprising some of these entries, of course I would say that my favorite game of all time is probably not on any standard "top 10 list" as well.

Keep them comming!

For me, xcom: ufo defense and betrayal at krondor have always been in a tie for first in my heart. With xcom, the way I would plan out my moves like sun tzu, only to immediately watch one of my troops get blasted in the back of the head, drop his grenade, and blow up my entire team was simply stunning. And i'll always love krondor's lock boxes. There aren't enough riddles in random games any more.

I don't want to win, I just want to participate!

So... many... games...

But I've got to go with Total Annihilation. Yeah, it's an older game, yeah, it's not true 3d like some of the more recent RTS entries, but for sheer fun, I haven't found much of anything that can top it. Plus, the dynamic soundtrack (by Jeremy Soule, who recently did music for Guild Wars and WH40K: Dawn of War), plus the sheer number of available units, plus a strong mod community that is STILL pumping out units and maps years after its release. This is the only game to date that I bought multiple copies of so I could loan one to a friend to play. This is the only game I've given away (to my bus driver at the time), just because it was that cool.

There are others that should make a list (Freespace 2 STILL pwns X-Wing and any of its variants, Independence War 2 - Edge of Chaos has great open-ended gameplay, Chrono Trigger was amazing), but there can be only one. (I'm looking forward to Supreme Commander also!)

By far the most time I've spent in a game was Alternate Reality for the Amiga 500. My best friend convinced me to buy it since I didn't think it looked that great. We played it so much it actually wore a hole through he 5 1/4 disk. Many many all night sessions and who knows how many bottles of MtDew.

Grim Fandango is easily my favourite game.
Excellent Art,
Fun Creative Puzzles (perfect diffuculty)
The Best Character EVER - Glottis
The Best Adventure Game Interface
Huge Intertwined Story
Wonderfull Humour - again Glottis
Many Different and Creative Locations
etc...
Only Problem is that it Ends.

I love Vagrant Story more than any other game on account of it's abilty to involve you in its reality in a way that few other games manage to achieve.
What do I mean by that?, well for starters it has the best intro sequence I can think off, it plays a pretty neat trick of going through the usual back story and then surprises you by chucking you, as the player, into the intro sequence to fight a dragon.This is one of the great game moments for me, right up there with that zombie turning his head to look at you in the first Resident Evil, and the screen-shaking thump thump of the T-rex footsteps as the beast appears from around that corner in the first Tomb Raider, real s*** your pants moments that few games and few movies ever manage to pull off effectively.

The second thing I love about Vagrant Story is that for some reason, the first person perspective feels as if you are being sucked into the screen and right down into the game itself, a down the rabbit hole Alice in wonderland kind of feeling.I still get a kick out of that.hundreds of games have the ability to go into First person view, but none have managed to give you a feeling of being in an honest to goodness Tron style sucked into the machine sensation that Vagrant Story manages.

The third and most important thing about this game is, believe it or not, the dialogue.
How many games have dialogue as their strong point?, I can think of one, and one only, Vagrant story of course.
In most games dialogue is usualy the weak point, its either the same old sub Chuck Norris action movie crap, or it's pseudo medieval garbage spoken with a Brooklyn accent that just grates on my ears, often it's a combination of all of the above.
Case in point, Thief: Deadly shadows, great little game, or at least it would have been if not for the juxtaposition of faux medieval setting with thick american accents, it was so bad that it ruined the game for me.

( BTW, I have nothing against American accents, in American movies or modern setting games, where they are perfectly acceptable).

But in Vagrant Story, they did away with voices and gave you those cool little speech bubbles that made you feel as if you were in some manga comic, and the translation was to die for , it's clear that they had spent as much time thinking about the translation as any other part of the game (I've often wondered if the original Japanese text was as striking as the english translation, and anyone who happens to have played and understood the original game, please let me know).
The game never gets old, because with the number crunching weapon system, you're always coming up with new combinations and dying to go hack a few monsters to try them out.
As for the reason the game holds a special place in so many people hearts, I would like to think all of the reasons I have mentioned above and a couple of others.
The ending wasn't really an ending, it always held the promise that it was but the first step on a journey.
Even today, I still hope that there is a sequel in development, and it is this hope and wishful thinking that keeps this game fresh.

It's absolutely impossible to tout one game to the utter exclusion of all others, so I'm going to have to build up to my favorite. Here are the runners-up:

Final Fantasy 3/6J (SNES): I still have the 3 CD soundtrack by Nobuo Uematsu that I begged my parents to buy me when it came out with the game in the mid-90's, and I still enjoy every track. Concept art by Yoshitaka Amano and an enthralling storyline made FF3 easily one of the best RPGs ever made.

Chrono Trigger (SNES): See Final Fantasy 3. Chrono Trigger is simple, honest gaming done right. Haunting music, endearing characters, badass fights and simple gameplay. It can't be ignored!

Dragon Force (Saturn): The Sega Saturn has to be the most underappreciated system of all time. Dragon Force is an addictive game that puts you in the shoes of one of seven warlords on the continent of LEGENDRA. You recruit generals and equip them with merits, which allow them to command more soldiers (samurai, zombies, dragons, harpies...) and special equipment. There are cool still-frame anime cutscenes, a few incredible plot twists, and the most addictive gameplay I have ever experienced.

Actraiser (SNES): Actraiser is awesome. For the longest time I played it without ever realizing how cool it is, but think about the premise for a second: You're a deity who was sealed away in ancient times by your demon nemesis. Now, you have to nurture your people's faith to gain power so you can possess ancient statues of yourself to kick demon ass. Sweet. The music by Yuzo Koshiro RULES; find the orchestrated version if you can. Sometimes the sidescrolling gameplay is frustratingly difficult, but hey! The best game isn't for wusses. The top-down city-building mode is simple and has a few interesting quirks, and it makes for interesting breaks between the beat-'em-up levels.

As for my favorite game ever, it's a doubtless tie between these two masterpieces:

Devil May Cry (PS2): This game definitely isn't for everyone, but I think it's terribly interesting that I've sunk more time into replaying this 8-hour game than I have any other game in my repertoire. It needs props for being (pretty much) the first of its kind, inspiring other amazing games like Ninja Gaiden (XBox) and God of War (PS2). The concept behind what makes this game one of the best ever is stupendously simple:

You're equipped with a growing inventory of special moves and weapons, which you use to combat a growing list of meanies. For the most part, any weapon can be used to defeat any monster. However, each monster has unique abilities and weaknesses shared with NO OTHER monsters in the game. Unlike most RPGs, and even action games, where fighting is restricted to a back-and-forth turn-based staccato, Devil May Cry's fights are immersive dances. If you let this game get into your head, you'll see what I mean - you will REALLY get into the deadly rhythms they have carefully crafted. No two fights are alike, and each monster requires an entirely new flow of thought and action to defeat.

The ultimate goal is to get an "S" rank on every level, which means you went through as fast as possible, taking almost no damage and dealing out a lot. At first it seems absurd. After all, what game is so neurotically designed that it can maintain any level of realistic difficulty while guaranteeing that, at any given time, you could be taking zero hits? This one. Devil May Cry is an art all its own, and that's a great thing for any game to be; a thing that too few games have become.

Fallout (PC): Fallout is the only game which has ever moved me to tears. The game itself isn't very emotionally intense, though its finely-crafted atmosphere is undeniably lonesome and melancholy. The ending, however, was so subtle; so heart-wrenching and poignant that I let loose with the waterworks. Fallout is a true role-playing game, unlike all the other hokey fakers out there.

I won't go so far as to say that you can do ANYTHING, but within the context of the game's storyline, you won't find your creativity stifled. You can wink and kiss your way through the entire game, or break every single person you meet over your knee, and the beauty of it is that the game does NOT simplify this down to a stupid binary choice of "Seduce Him" or "Kill Him." You will become undyingly attached to your character, because you really DO create him or her as the game progresses.

Well... back to my homework...

It's a hard question, but I think mine is The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I know it's a popular title, but besides it's awesome gameplay and being the first 3d Zelda game, it's the only game that ever made me go buy something from within the game.
I actually bought an Ocarina with the music for all the songs from OoT, and I play it often still. (no, it wasn't the one from Nintendo Power, but a handmade one from RenFest)

My favourite game is The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (64)
First of you start as "kid Link" and fight through 3 dungeons, then you get the Master Sword and turn into "adult Link", which is pretty cool alone.

As far as I know it was the first 3D game (platformer?) with targetting, so the camera keeps link and the target both on the screen at (almost) all times.

Also, lots of nifty items, 3 spells, 4 types of arrows,3 different tunics (red for heat resistance, blue for underwater, and the standard green tunic).

And of course the Ocarina of Time, took me a while but I memorized all the songs :).

A wide variety of dungeon types from the belly of a whale to a tomb far out in the desert.

The boss fight was just the right challenge, it took me a few times to kill Gannondorf and Gannon the first time, but it was very fun anyway.....

Man I forgot about Master of Magic, that game is awesome.

-Oberic
I sure hope the nintendo's revolution wins this phase of the console war. they'll see, they'll all see!

The Adventures of Lolo (NES)

In my opinion, the Adventures of Lolo was the best puzzle game ever made. The graphics were somewhat dull, and the sound effects were extremely repetitive, but solving each board gave me a great deal of satisfaction. Plus, it is the only game I've played that can make me jump in surprise!

The puzzles were simple: collect the Heart Frames, open the treasure chest, the door opens, and you leave. It starts off as a simple Soko-ban clone, but evolves into a little action, a little puzzle, a lot of observation, and planning, planning, planning! Some of the hearts hid bullets which could be shot at most enemies to turn them into eggs that you can push around or ride like a raft--unless the river was lava!

The puzzles were designed in such a way that the solutions could be derived by what you can't do. Eliminate all of the wrong methods, and you're left with the correct solution. If you collect a heart before moving the box and you get killed, it means that you have to move the box first or find another way to move the box and/or collect the heart. As the puzzles got closer to the final stage 100, the solutions get more complicated and picky!

And then there's the Medusa. The stationary Medusa and linear-moving Don Medusa will shoot deadly darts at you if you walk into his line of sight. Trees don't block his line of sight. Being half-hidden blocks the line of sight. Sometimes, walking halfway on a heart will both prevent the heart from being collected and Lolo from being shot! You don't expect to get shot, but you can easily overlook something and BAM! You've jumped out of you seat and practically knock over the lamp.

The overall satisfaction comes when you do each step perfectly to collect the hearts, get thru the new obstacles to collect the (hopefully unblocked) treasure chest, which in turn makes the enemies disappear, which hopefully clears the path to the exit. It's a pure learning experience in Lolo-Logic.

I've thought of a few more...

Freespace 2: Absolute best space fighter sim ... ever. The missions scaled up the difficulty perfectly, and the action was awesome. The campaign was huge too! Tons of fleet fighting to be had. I remember watching the Colossus blow up... I really didn't expect that!

Harvest Moon 64: I can't even explain this one... It's so awesome! You're a farmer...on a farm. And there yah go, that's about it. But the game was fantastic. Nothing was more satisfying than watching the changes that went through the village over time. So, it's farming... but epic farming... ;)
All the extra bonus features were awesome too. I still haven't filled up the photo album to this day.... =)

Unreal Tournament 2004: Ok, Ok, it's new but its so awesome! To this day I still play it, and it's always fun. Superbly balanced, and a huge community too! I've wasted a good deal of time playing with friends at night. Nothing beats a lag-less hellbender race with a bunch of friends!

Donkey Kong. I played it on a cocktail table when I was 7.

Coolest thing ever.

I've played games since. It remains one of my first video games, and favorites, simply because it opened me up to Pac Man, Galaga, Centipede, and MY favorite (and pretty much the best) game ever, Ms. Pac Man. It was Pac Man w/ MORE (then), and it remains as challenging and addictive today as it was in it's heyday.

It's because of games like like these that I got into gaming, from Atari through the Nintendo DS.

The DK cocktail table was at the bar my dad tended at, and he'd feed me quarters to play and keep me outta his hair when I had to go w/ him (...the '70's...sheesh). So Russ, I guess thanks to you, too.

*quick shot out to Geometry Wars.... :p

World Of Warcraft
This game is my favorite becuase me and some friends play it together. Its a fun game and I have meet a bunch of friends in my guild. I couldn't get this kind of experience with any other game. It has great gameplay, great people, and you never finish playing it.

I'd have to say my favorite game ever was "STUNTS" for the PC. It came with 5 lame tracks, but an amazing track editor. My freinds and I would have competitions making tracks and uploading them to BBS systems. (tracks were always 2k each). The closest thing you can find to this game now is a game called "Trackmania". I played it a bit, but I thought the user created tracks were TOO crazy.

Stunts came out around the same time as the original "Soundblaster" card.

IVAN (Iter Vehemen Ad Necem) is easily my favorite game. Why? Because it's so zany, open-ended, and impossibly difficult, that's why. Sorta like Nethack, except even more unforgiving, and having a graphic interface and quest system that's just...better.

God I love this game.

The game that most impacted me was Final Fantasy X. It's not the greatest game in the world, but since the classes were pre-defined the characters were far more developed. I'm kind of obsessive with doing *everything* which often leaves me frusterated with the game and leaving it alone.

I played the game primarly during what has remained to this date the most meaningful relationship I've ever been into. It was pretty hard to get over this person. I would even say it took a few years.

So I pick up Final fantasy X again, 2 years after I started. I said screw it and just finished it. Due to my obsessive leveling I was way above what I needed to win, it was no sweat at all.

In the end the story and the cutscenes were all about Tidus fading away, and saying goodbye. I'm sure you recall the scene on the airship when Yuna runs to hug him, goes through him and slams into the deck.

This paralleled what I felt I was going through and, as stupid as it sounds, was really when I said goodbye to this person in my life.

I played the game in our relationship, I finished it when I could finally let go. No matter the games flaws it is the only game that made me cry in the final cutscenes. For those reasons I will never forget Final Fantasy X.

Perfect Dark on Nintendo 64.

This game developed my love for FPS and most importantly, multiplayer titles.

I still, to this day, enjoy playing 4 player with my friends with bots.

The weapons are incredible with their secondary functions and the speed of the gameplay is fantastic. My only gripe with the game is now after playing FPS games on XBOX I find it a bit harder to control but it is still incredible fun.

Well, seeing as how I was born after all "classics" were around, I'm gona have to pick something abit more modern. I know most people wouldn't even consider an MMO as an option, but I just had so much fun with Planetside that it ranks up there with me.

The best part was working together with other people, joining a clan, getting on teamspeak, and actually coming up with a plan. Galaxy drops, ghost hacking, taking out power to a base, nothing compared to the momentary satisfaction it gave. And then you did it all over again.

One of Sony's best, if underrated MMO's IMHO.

The Sims 2, cause its fun to screw with people's lives!

While I hope to change to Spore next year sometime, I'd say my Favorite game of all-time is Half-Life 2.

Now before you scroll past becuase I picked a game that's been out less than 5 years, stick with me. HL2 is the complete single-player package, with the added bonus of being packaged with CS:S, an updated legend of multiplayer.

No other game has come close to HL2 in terms of immersion in the story, environment, and characters as HL2 has for me. No other game with a linear story and pre-scripted events has had such a compelling replay value for me. No other game has so successfully combine so many classic elements: Platforming, puzzles, FPS, Squad-FPS, mystery, horror, OMGWTFISTHAT?, so well.

HL2 is head and shoulders above any other game I've played, and I think I'll go play some Anticitizen One now...

Not very original, but I loved the first Doom. I pulled all nighters playing it. My friends and I brought down our company's network playing deathmatches. Amazing how with those graphics, I could still jump out of my seat when turning a corner and getting surprised by an imp.

My favorite game of all time will always be Fallout. Post Apocalyptic setting, freedom to do almost whatever you want, and a great storyline and skill system. Oh yeah, and ghouls... gotta love the ghouls. ;)

AOE, purely because it was one of the first games that actually got me playing strategy games- now alot of my games are strategy :D

Boy, there are a lot of games I love. PSO, Earthbound, Savage,
Link to the Past, Super Mario World, Warcraft 3, but I guess I'd say my favorite is Myst.

I first got Myst not long after it came out. I was too young to really figure it out though, so it got shoved aside. I tried again off and on over the next few years, but never really gave it any time. Then I forgot about it. About a year ago, I went back to it, and was amazed by how great a game it really was. The great setting, fun puzzles, and fantastic atmosphere blew me away. This game has the power to alternatingly feel stupid and smart. Admittedly, I still couldn't finish the whole thing without a couple hints, but It's still a very memorable gameplay experience for me. Needless to say I went out and got the sequels. I urge everyone who hasn't to at least try this game.

My favorite video game is probably the Sims 2. It lasts forever and it really never gets boring. My favorite racing game would have to be Midnight Club 3 because I finished it.

My favorite game was, is, and probably always will be Pokemon Red version for the GBA. I know I just lost a lot of man points by saying that, but it's true.

The game came out when I was 10, and I had to have it. After months of begging I got the game for Christmas, and got right to it.

Now I don't know what it is about that game, but Pokemon evokes such a feeling of paternalism in a child that they don't want to put it down. I was the trainer, and all my little Pokemon were depending on me to make them strong. So me and my Pokemon friends would go and have our adventures, beating trainers, getting stronger.

Then I grew up, and other games caught my eye. I started to play less and less. But like an old worn out teddy bear, whenever I get bored of questing in WoW, or I really don't feel like picking up that controller to play Halo 2, it's right there waiting for me. So occasionally I sneak off and visit my Poke-friends, kill the not-so-Elite 4 and say "until next time" to the game once again.

Sami

p.s.-all these years later, if you asked me to name all 151 pokemon, I could probably do it.

Hero's Quest, later named Quest for Glory and published by Sierra.

This game is phenomenal for a number of reasons, and I would say it's my favorite for three.

1.) It was a graphically rich, immersive world that had one of the most innovative character based role playing systems and story arcs ever created.

2.) It was built by a husband and wife team in a time when game development was as much about making a difference in the world as it was about making a few bucks for the companies.

3.) "Razzle Dazzle Root Beer" is the first game hack I ever discovered, and I spent four months documenting what each Alt - Letter command did until I was able to give myself any item, teleport anywhere, and could kill a dragon by throwing a rock at it.

Perhaps not a pivotal game in the history of PCs, but certainly a major milestone in my life.

My fav game from the past would be the original Quake (PC), and its variants VQuake and GLQuake. These were all the same game with some visual and network tweaks. This game was the reason I and so many other people purchased the original Voodoo1 3D cards.
Not for the single player game, but for the fantastic multiplayer support.
This game started the market for PC 3D accelerators cards.

I would visit a friend most weekends, where we setup a permanant Lan with 4 of us playing most of every weekend. We also went to several large Lans way back before they were common, just to play big games of Quake.

Quake, the best and the original fully 3d 1st person shooter. Thanks iD.

one of my favorite games is Warhammer 40.000 Dawn of war! NICE game. I love the orks and thier simple lives. "IM THA BIGGEST! SO IM THA BOSS!" and they managed to balance the game so great even though the sides are quite different. and the looks of it *drools* damn thats just a great game:).

SimCity 2000

This is my favorite game of all time. Before I got it, I rarely played computer/video games. After I got SimCity 2000 (for the Mac), it was almost the only game I played for years, until we got Windows 98 (we went straight from 3.1 to 98) and I got my own computer. I must have made hundreds upon hundreds of cities. We don't have the Mac anymore, so it's hard to say for certain.

But, I didn't quit playing it. Soon after I received 98 on my computer, I got SimCity 2000 for Windows, as well as an assortment of other Maxis games. I continued to play it every once in a while, until I got SimCity 3000. I now rarely play it anymore, as I have SimCity 4, but I still have the game.

All this talk about SimCity 2000 is making me want to play it again...

-Oviraptor

Ah. Kingdom Hearts, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. There are four extra bosses, 99 collectibles (Dalmatians), 'trinity' locations, where you and your teammates can gain secret items, tournaments where you can fight to your heart's content, and a secret ending if you can do it ALL! The learning curve is a simple 20 minutes to a half hour, and although at times the control scheme can be tricky during boss battles, it almost never lets you down.
Kingdom Hearts is spectacular, aesthically and graphically, but some might complain about the camera. To tell you the truth, I NEVER had a problem with the camera. You may be confused with it for the first boss battle, or the second, but as you progress into the game, you’ll grow very accustomed to it.
With it’s deep story, fabulous new characters from Square, and some familiar villains making cameo appearances, Kingdom Hearts is a must buy for any RPG, Action, Platformer, or Square fan. If you have just bought a PS2, I highly recommend making this game your first choice. The battle system is very easy, and in real time, while a shortcut system is well utilized, making spell-casting easy, too. I really can’t find anything wrong with this flawless game, but at some points, it can get difficult. However, with some quick thinking it can be overcome. There is plenty of replayability, what with all of the collectibles and sweet prizes that come with them, but Square hasn’t overdone it. It has a long, yet not TOO long story, that keeps you holding out until the very end.
Kingdom Hearts merits a 10.0 from me, because of its beautiful graphics, a masterfully crafted story, and original characters, this is the best RPG in a long time!

I like Pac-Man. it is fun.

I would have to say Animal Crossing because it has such original game play and has sooo much to do!

I think I'll list another game I love to peices. ET... no wait.... I was obsessed with Lemmings... Ohh my how they loved to go up like popcorn... Whuu-Ohh!

Sami, it took great big brass cojones to admit a love of Pokemon Red. I, too, am a Pokemaniac. Sapphire was the reason I bought a GBA. (Well, that and the fact that the SP came out at the same time).

My favorite game is...King’s Quest II: Romancing the Throne.

I played this game on my Tandy Computer (with no Hard Drive). This was unlike anything I had played before. The game world contained different fairy tale and mythology themes and it really struck a chord with me in my youth. I wish they would (officially) remake the King's Quest Series along with some new Police Quest games.

I can't remember if it was called auto duel or car wars for my apple IIe. It not only had a deep vehicle building and combat game, it also had an open ended playstyle with a decent plot tying the whole thing together. Interstate 76 came along years later with excellent car combat and a funky '70s groove but alas there was no rpg element. The upcoming Auto Assault looks promising but doesn't seem to be on quite the same track. I still hold onto a small biscuit of hope that somebody will one day update this game and release it as a mmorpg.

I'd say the Sims, which in my very nOOb opinion created a new genre for it to fit in, which afterwards pulled more games to try and fit in, which obviously failed.

I like the Sims simply because it gave me hours of joy.

A.H

Tracksuit Manager in Commodore. A very good manager game.....
Also GTA series are the best.....

I really loved ONI, a first person shooting and fighting game from 2001 with a racy soundtrack and graphics straight out of a SciFi-Anime.

My favorite game would have to be spore because I haven't even played it but I'm already loving it!

It will have to be Zelda: The Ocarina of Time. The gameplay
is so unbelieveble, it took so much gamers, including me, and shook them so hard that they still remember It also shows that graphics rely on artwork and on colour use. Not on the amount of polygons.
The music is unmatched. It still leads in the genre of action adventures... Period!

My favorite game? Easy: Crimson Skies. The origonal one for the PC. A very fun story, really fun flying physics and a assortment of weapons set in a fantastic universe. You had over the top characters and perfect pacing. You never got bored with the levels or the variety of missions. While each map was repeated over and over again 3-4 times, each objective was different and the cast of characters was different.
The badguys became good and the goodguys became better. A fun romp in what i would call a game that puts you right into a flying action movie.
Not only that but unlike the Xbox version, you could outfit each plane in numerous ways, from the number of hardpoints, the weapons it carried, the guns it carried, to even how much armor it carried. It was all a tradeoff that you had to calculate.
Sure the AI was not that smart, but they were competant enough to fly around you and shoot well. The sound acting was terrific and the visuals not that bad. I still play it now many years later. :-)

Final Fantasy VII. Was my first RPG and the first game to show me that games could be more than mindless hacking and slashing and slamming on buttons. The story pulled me into the game, made me care about the characters, and gave my mind more of a workout than my fingers. The other FFs have been cool, but nothing can touch this classic title.

007 Golden Eye(for the N64, not that god awful follow up) is my favorite game of all time. It brings back warm memories of me and my cousins huttled around a small TV in my grandma's basement on christmas. I loved the feeling of poping someone with an autoshotgun or nailing someone in the head with a throwing knife.

World Of Warcraft. Simple as that...

Why? Well, if i didnt like, i am sure i wouldnt be paying 40 bucks a-quarter to play it...

Battlefield 2 is my favorite game -right now- It's the only game I'm playing at the moment. With 64 people on 1 battlefield, the action is non-stop. When I die, I actually scream. I put a crick in my neck when I died once, so it Has caused me physical pain. This game is helping me gain muscle too. Because with 5 minutes of loading for every 20 minutes of gameplay, I've been doing pushup's and sit-ups while I wait.

Many games are a splash screen, a menu, and then you are dropped in to the game to play, often with a cursory and unnecessary background plot that feels sort of tacked on as filler. Another angle is the cut-scene movies that you'll only want to watch once, and seem more like what the developers made to get money to make the game rather than what the real game is about. On that second note, I want to give a nod to Warhammer 40k Dawn Of War for their integration of the cut-movie and game play. However...

Enter Half-Life. Yes, you have the start menu, but then the game starts with a tram ride. You are reading the credits and slowly wander through the complex you are about to do battle in. The tram address system working in good HR fashion building your world subtly around you explaining such mundane details are drug testing and job openings. While the narration is not specific to the game, it is building an atmosphere around you. You are becoming a member of the Black Mesa project. You are obviously on your way somewhere, and given the sights you see on the way, it must be important.

Finally you reach a station and the doors open. You are greeted by Barney the security guard, and his mannerism develops the plot on two more points:
1. You are higher ranking that him and a scientist
2. You're late for work (again)

Next you wander in to the lab area, listening to the typical gripes of other employees, some ignoring you, others telling you to hurry up because you are late and needed at the 'test chamber'.

You are Gordon Freeman, PHD, and you get the be the lucky guy moving samples in an experimental materials research project pushed more by deadlines than safety, as you are soon to discover.

Things go wrong, people are dying, strange things are happening, and the Marines are on their way to rescue you...

This is Half-Life. You are a character in a game that set the bar for all of the rest to follow. You are Gordon Freeman. Not because you read it on a screen, but because the atmosphere, from the small scrolling text to the comments to actions of the other characters in the game. From the sounds and things you encounter, you find yourself in something that seems much bigger than it really is. It is an environment with a game in it rather than a game being placed haphazardly in an environment.

Sadly, such works are rare. The time and energy to make them are just not viable in the industry anymore. We see a shift towards user created content and modding rather than full-fledged stories. Like Myst, Half-Life was a once-through experience, but it was large and full with rewarding, if not somewhat anti-climactic end.

So, if you have never played HalfLife, you can still pick it up for 20bucks this Christmas season, with all its expansions, at most WalBuys and Best Marts. Half-Life 2 does well in following the story, and many things in HL2 will not make sense if you've never played HL1, but like movies, the first is usually the best.

-Lego

i will have to take back to retro and say that my favorite game would be Clash at demon head for the NES........and the reason i liked it was because it was different and pretty hard to beat it seemed to be a sleeper game for that generation and to me it had a metriod feel. and since we are talkin bout fav games i will have to put the runner up which is another NES title which steve i think you remember Blaster Master hahaha ikno ikno ooold but that game was cool because you could switch from your suv type truck and blast your enemies pretty cool things anyway great site steve keep up the great work......also let us know your favorites!

My most Favorite game of all time would have to be Worm Hole, it was the game that made me a gamer, sure it was some little dinky online game hosted on centerfleet.... and the game doesnt exist anymore, but it was simple... in your face... non stop beat down action and there was no build up or slow down to it other then if you aloud the enemy to send through everything possible.

Dont know if any of you have played wormhole but I miss it lol, sorta like I miss how much fun Red Alert was lol but now it seems like jack all compared to the games Ive seen hehe.

my favorite game is whatever i'm playing at the moment and right now thats mario kart ds